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CorrectUKspellingsin Word
Online
One thing thatirrita tesmeinthe
MicrosoftWord webapp ( http://www.office
.com)ist hatspell-checkingdefaults
to US and not UK.This meansit
underlines‘colour’aswrong because it’s
expecting the US spelling‘color’. To fix
this ,press Ctrl+Ato selectall the text in
adocument, then clickthe Reviewmenu.
Click the arrow to the rightof Sp elli ng &

Grammar,then click Set Proofing

Language andselect English (UK)

in the language list.

It would be useful if UK Englishcould

be set asadefault but it seemsyouhave

to change the spellingto UK inevery

documentyoucreate.

TomO’Neill,via email

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Automatically clearyour

viewinghistory

Ioften watchYouTubeon

ourfamily PC andmy kids

sometimes take the

mickey out of meformyold

shows and music.Idecided

to clearmy history,then

found out thatyou can

actually getYouTubeto

deleteyour viewing history

automatically, which makes

lifeslightly easier.

Go to bit.ly /youcontrol489

to access the settings page

forwatchingYouTube,then

click the linkto ‘Chooseto

delete automatically’. Select how

frequentlyyou want your YouTube

history to be cleared.At the moment,

the options areevery three months

or every18months.

Poll yDevaney,via email

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click

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way up?Mostoft he photos taken onmy

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In the lastissue of

WebUser,you

mentioned Chrome’s

newtab hovercards.

They sounded likea

goodidea but after

about twominutes they

started driving me

crazy andIhad to work

out howtoget ridof

them. Luckily,it’sa

prettystraight forward

process,althou gh youdo

have to use theexperimental flagstool,

so proceed with care!

Start by openingGoogle Chrome

and goingtochrome://flags.Once

there, use the search boxtof ind

tabhover cards.You’retaken to a

screen withabit of information about

Remove Chrome’stab hovercards

BROWSERS

howthe hovercards work. Openthe

drop-down menuto the right and

select Disabled. Finally,click the

Relaunchbutton at the bottomof the

screento relaunch Chromeandsee the

changestake effect.

Alan Dunster, viaemail

GetridofChrome’s latestfeaturewiththisFlag

Back

Issues

disc

winner

WritinginWordonline?Don’tforgetto

setthespellingtoUKEnglish

StopGooglekeepingtabsonyour

YouTubehistory

JPEGAutorotateis asimpletool

thatletsyourotateimageswitharight-click